Ingrid Jonker

Ingrid Jonker

About Ingrid Jonker

Read best Ingrid Jonker poems. She was a South African poet. Although she wrote in Afrikaans, her poems have been widely translated into other languages. Jonker has reached iconic status in South Africa and is often called the South African Sylvia Plath, owing to the intensity of her work and the tragic course of her turbulent life. Here are below some of her most famous poems.
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